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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

Joseph Campbell

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Fascination Fire Interest Mystery
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Artist Love Mistake Perfection Person
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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End Fact Ignorance Ourselves
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Divine Follow God Message Power Word Yourself
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Beyond Fact Information
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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God Inspirational Motivational Open Path True Yourself
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Burn Life Love Pain Point Sorrow Yourself
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream

When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

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